Product Owner, YourParkingSpace
Marketplace Team
£50-60k
Online marketplace for on-demand parking
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for on-demand parking
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£50-60k
101-200 employees
Company mission
YourParkingSpace's mission is to change the way the world parks, backed by the belief that parking could and should be easier.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner (or similar role in product development or product management), achieving business results and creating real value for customers
- Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product lifecycle
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence others and advocate for the best interests of the business and our customers
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum)
- Ideally, experience working in a product-led environment, with a basic technical background and knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and web technologies
What the job involves
- As a talented, enthusiastic and self-motivated Product Owner, your responsibilities will include gathering and ideating feature requests, scheduling releases and coordinating sprints
- To be successful in this role, you should be able to identify unmet user needs and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases
- Ultimately, you’ll help us to roll out products that deliver our company’s vision and delight our customers
- Our Marketplace teams work cross-functionally with a focus solely on our core marketplace platforms (including our UK and Ireland websites; and iOS & Android mobile applications) which connect drivers with over 1 million privately owned and commercially operated parking spaces across the UK and Ireland, available to book hourly, daily, or monthly basis
- With a rapidly growing team, plans for international expansion, multi-million-pound funding in place, hugely exciting commercial opportunities landing daily, and a team of competent and hard-working engineers ready to go, you will be joining the organisation at an extremely exciting moment in its history
- Working closely with Product Managers and Engineers, in your role as a Product Owner at YourParkingSpace, you will be responsible for:
- Working alongside our extremely passionate, creative and talented Engineering team, to discover unmet customer needs, form and validate assumptions by ideating and developing potential solutions to customer problems, delivering the best experience to our users
- Planning, prioritising, and refining the product feature backlog
- Developing detailed user stories and defining suitable acceptance criteria
- Leading and empowering cross-functional teams to define and achieve sprint goals
- Writing acceptance tests
- Planning releases and upgrades
- Removing impediments to team progress
- Following the progress of work and addressing production issues during Sprints
- Building and maintaining cross-functional relationships to foster collaboration
- Understand differences in customer expectations in different regions around the world, and help to tailor experiences accordingly
- Analysing insights from qualitative and quantitative data and ensure everything that can be automated, is automated, and that AI usage is prevalent throughout the organisation to improve efficiency
- Demonstrating a keen interest in personal development and upskilling to ensure a strong understanding of the latest technology trends and building new skills in line with the ever-changing industry landscape
Our take
Private space owners and commercial parking space operators use YourParkingSpace to fill their empty parking spaces, connecting them to an online audience of drivers searching for parking. By using YourParkingSpace, space owners can monetise this under-utilised resource whilst commercial clients across hospitality, retail, and property can drive footfall and improve customer experience. The platform uses proprietary technology and live data analytics to deliver their intelligent parking solutions.
YourParkingSpace already markets over 350,000 bays in over 50 cities in the UK, including private space providers and operators such as Tesco, Morrisons, and Premier Inn. It now serves 1 million drivers in the UK.
The company has benefited from shifts in behaviour caused by COVID-19, with returning workers increasingly choosing to drive over taking public transport. In addition, with large space owners suffering from declining footfall driven by the shift to online shopping and commerce, this trend is encouraging them to assess ways to optimise their parking estates. YourParkingSpace’s 2022 acquisition by urban mobility company Flowbird will allow them to improve their technology and integrate into Flowbird's 80-city-plus network.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Innovative product
"YourParkingSpace is leading the way with our product. The App is modern and easy to use and the concept is making travelling easier than ever. We're..."
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2020
$6.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.4m
Company benefits
- Free gym membership
- Work-free birthday
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working options
Company HQ
Poplar, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charles Cridland
(CIO)Started out in Equity Derivatives at Lloyds TSB, and was a Search Analyst at Artemis Eight LLP. Founded SparkNet Media Ltd in 2010.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at YourParkingSpace
- We get to our destination quicker, when we’re equal!
- Diversity and inclusion fuels our team, we achieve and understand more when everyone’s voice is heard and valued
- YourParkingSpace are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, this means we do not discriminate against anyone regardless of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, identity, religious beliefs, whether or not they have dependents or if they have any disabilities. We do this, simply because it is the right thing to do
- Most importantly, we want you to be you!
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